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A Best Friend’s Tribute to Olivia Marchand

Nicole Kibblehouse’s Presentation at Saturday’s Memorial Mass at St. Catherine’s of Alexandria Church

WESTFORD, Mass. – For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Livy’s best friend. I know that none of you were probably as close to her as I was before she died, and that’s why I’m standing here this morning.

I don’t want you to remember her as the picture you see in the newspaper or on the news everyday, I want you to remember her as if she was your best friend. I want you to know the little things that should never be forgotten.

Liv is the most understanding person I’ve ever met and the best listener by far. I can ramble on and on all day about the most random and uneventful stories, and she will still ask me questions and laugh. She’s dependable. I can text or call her at any time and she will always answer.

The only time she lets me down is if she hangs out with someone else besides me.

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Olivia Marchand, 17, Memorialized by Peers

Gathering at Westford Academy Ends a Week of Mourning

By Joyce Pellino Crane

WESTFORD, Mass. – The bright smile was evident in every photo displayed on the oversized screen at an afternoon vigil memorializing Olivia Marchand, 17, who, police say, was the tragic victim of domestic violence.

Westford Academy students honored Marchand’s memory one final time, this afternoon, with a five-minute photo essay depicting their classmate from her elementary school days through her senior year—an effervescent girl surrounded by friends or nuzzling her horse Lola.

The assembly inside the school’s 850-seat Performing Arts Center drew so many mourners that it spilled over into a gymnasium.

Police say Marchand was shot with a 9 mm handgun by her father, Brian Marchand, 59, who also critically wounded his wife, Jody, 50, and then killed himself with a gunshot.

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